Conceptual representations in long-term memory crucially contribute to perception and
action, language and thought. However, the precise nature of these conceptual memory …

Research from the past decade has shown that understanding the meaning of words and
utterances (ie, abstracted symbols) engages the same systems we used to perceive and …

The embodied cognition framework suggests that neural systems for perception and action
are engaged during higher cognitive processes. In an event-related fMRI study, we tested …

Background Studies demonstrating the involvement of motor brain structures in language
processing typically focus on time windows beyond the latencies of lexical-semantic access …

Few would doubt the benefits of exercise on one's physical well-being. However, the
benefits of exercise on one's mental abilities are not nearly as extolled. More directly, the …

Drawing on research in narrative theory and literary aesthetics, text and discourse
processing, phenomenology and the experimental cognitive sciences, this paper outlines an …

Which types of nerve cell circuits enable humans to use and understand meaningful signs
and words? Philosophers were the first to point out that the arbitrary links between signs and …

Recent work has been mixed with respect to the notion of embodied semantics, which
suggests that processing linguistic stimuli referring to motor-related concepts recruits the …

Word meaning processing in the brain involves ventrolateral temporal cortex, but a semantic
contribution of the dorsal stream, especially frontocentral sensorimotor areas, has been …

This study aimed at determining whether the size of reachable space is affected by the level
of danger of some everyday manipulable objects. Two possibilities are examined …